So this shot for a simple hotel room in Dubai, nothing special in the room but what do you thing guys of the composition and retouching, and how far do you thing an interior photographer will survive without flashes? :)
...was the challenge some weeks / months ago. I did: approaching the topic "deepscape".
As we were planning our shoot, Iria said she needed a swimwear look. I wanted lifestyle with my car. We compromised. I think it turned out great. Hope you like it.
A bird I have not come across before. In my ignorance I just assumed it was a variety of Toucan.
I feel fortunate to have ben able to capture it with my lens.
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First, which is the true color? If I were the client, that would be very high on my list of requirements.
Second, the thought process of changing the left part of the frame may be good if you want to deceive a prospective renter of the room, but again, which is real? Besides, you weren't able to remove the dot pattern which makes the viewer believe it's some sort of strange window.
Again, reality vs fantasy, you went overboard softening the bed spread features.
This is more an exercise in what can be done to manipulate an image than it is doing a real estate shot for a client..
A flash can help reduce shadows, but it can also introduce shadows. If there's enough lighting in a room, bracketing 5 shots can pretty much eliminate the need for a flash. But, if there isn't sufficient light, then a flash may become necessary.
I'm sorry that this isn't a more positive review, but from a client's viewpoint, it isn't reality and a hotelier does not want customers expecting one thing and finding another, unless the hotelier doesn't care, then all bets are off.
Thanks for the deep critique David and this is what develop us after all,
first thing regarding the colors, the colors in the room was white like the processed photo, second thing is that the window is real and masked by closing the lights to eliminate the reflection on the glass and taking an exposure of only the window , the dots on the window is a part of a pattern and an identity in the whole hotel's exterior and interior....
I belive that people who stand out should have something different in there style, some are more artistic (but not fake) , and some are just telling the honest truth :) about the place ,and ofcourse it all depends on the clients preferences
And I agree with you that I have went overboard softening the bed ..
..thanks again for the critique again David
Just keep in mind that I was viewing this as if you were shooting the room for a client, not as an exercise in processing. I was being practical in the sense that if I were the hotelier, I wouldn't want someone to see any sort of advertisement that could misrepresent reality, that's all.